Margins are slim.

The odds that you are the latter on your first time out is slim. 

Some areas might be fat, some slim.

I'm in the business of selling property, it's on the MLS, and the likelihood that you will go find a buyer for a higher price than all the buyers looking at the MLS are slim, Unless I let my seller accept some ridiculous low price to begin with. 2).

But, you don't have a marketable contract, nor do you have sufficient equity for any discount.If your buyer put money down, looks slim, but if they did, it's pretty much on you to cure all this and put them in a position to buy as agreed.

Consider your costs to acquire a property, financing, insurance, payments, title and settlement, that alone can get an owner to be motivated, especially in a slim deal, toss in a couple grand, show they are out of the loop, everything will be managed for them.

@Jonathan Richards - You can narrow down the results by entering things like "Washington State" but the odds of people writing that are far more slim.

Chances that you can get welfare if you quit I'm guessing are slim without lying or not reporting rental income.

They do look a lil like Slim Shady though I'll give em' that. +1 creativity

Chances of him covering the repair cost would be slim to none and you likely wouldn't even consider continuing to use him.If he had insurance, you would expect him to cover his mistake.